Yes. I'm keeping my main books far away from AI because the vitriol and anti-AI sentiment is so strong, but also because they're MY books. 100%. I don't even use editors or beta readers. Wouldn't let anyone touch them.

But, and here's the thing for me, I've had a lot of ideas for stories I'd love to *read* but don't want to put the time into writing. I would love to read them in fact. And this is what my experiment is going to be about. AI writing books I want to read as a reader but don't really want to write as a writer. I'll read, fix anything needing fixed, and then see if I think they're publishable. We'll see if it works out. That's why I'm calling it an experiment.

Yeah, if I hear anything about that kind of thing between now and then, I'll pay attention. But I don't think it's going to happen. At least not with edited works. I do think this is going the way of self-publishing. SP people got dissed by Trad people. Now SP and Trad are dissing the people writing decent works with AI help. I could be wrong.

I'm just saying this as someone who has no interest in AI taking over my main books but who has a lot of stories I just don't have time to write down in the weeds, but have tons of ideas and thoughts about. So it's easy to "direct" AI, telling it exactly what I want and it doing the hard work of getting the words on the page. To be honest, I wasn't convinced about it until I used it to "write" a fan fiction I wanted to read but that didn't exist. And now it does. I was a little flabbergasted. It wrote 4k words exactly as I wanted them, in about an hour. And I write about 500 words an hour. So this was huge for me.

Amazon will transfer the review automatically to the ebook after the paperback and ebook gets linked. But good luck getting readers to review the paperback even if you suggest they do. Most always seem to think it's strange because they get hung up on it being reviewed under the book instead of the ebook.

That information will not be shared much

Seriously?

As far as the discussion goes here, I see it as necessary evidence. If you can't come up with bot books we can look at to see their ranks in real time, then there is no evidence that they're selling at all.

I'm not talking about content provider stats. Just actual book pages where a rank is displayed.

No evidence, then no problem.

Those pushing the bot thing need to start coming up with some examples which are selling. Because until you do, I can't take any of this seriously.

If I publish the paperback first (What I'm thinking of doing is to publish the paperback first, get some reviews there so when the ebook is published I can get good ads.) and give ebook ARCS to my ARC people, and they post their reviews on the paperback, when the ebook gets published, will the reviews from the paperback transfer to the ebook? If so, will they transfer automatically?